The building was originally used as a butter factory and converted into apartments in the 1990s. The architects removed a steel truss through the centre of the space and replaced the roof to make room for additional bedrooms.

Adrian Amore told Dezeen the twisted staircase, that is made from steel and covered with plywood and plaster, was constructed and tested on site.

"I wanted to dramatise the form of the stair, to give it more movement than a conventional circular stair, almost as though it had been pulled or stretched at its mid point," Amore explained.

"This was challenging to build, to distribute the loads evenly, as the stair naturally wanted to flex at at its mid point, and so we were worried about it bouncing," he added.

The stair treads are covered in a dark-stained hardwood.

The ground floor features a bathroom, laundry and pantry space are concealed behind more curving plaster walls. The kitchen, living room, dining room and studio are all open-plan.

Grey marble covers benches and splash backs, while low-hanging lights are fixed above the kitchen table, which is also covered with marble.

Sliding doors between the downstairs areas also mean the space can be separated or left open for entertaining.

A pair of bedrooms upstairs sit across from a bathroom and another large studio space, while a wooden roof deck offers views over the city.

Walls tear, bend and converge in this sleek loft apartment interior housed in a former butter factory, in West Melbourne, Australia, by architect Adrian Amore.

A sculptural stair sits at the converging point in the space, twisting dramatically, and soaring up towards a recreational roof deck which overlooks the city of Melbourne.

Ground floor plan - click for larger image

The original apartment contained a steel truss which sliced through its centre, polarising, and its removal, together with the removal of the existing roof generated accessible space for addition bedrooms.

A monochrome palate of white on white with charcoal and black, plays with the abundant natural light which is drawn in from the large north facing windows and ceiling void.

First floor plan - click for larger image

An essentially open ground floor plan is defined by bending, wrapping walls which contain a bathroom, laundry and storage spaces.

Sliding doors further create the opportunity for expanding or containing, depending on how the ground floor space is used, whether it be as a studio, bedroom or for entertaining.

Comments

Those are definitely no photos, those are renderings. just saying. Anyway, that place seems so sterile and dead that it seems to be uninhabitable.

spadestick

You are indeed a hater. I live in a space like this everyday - In no way they are sterile or dead. There's more life than you can imagine, all the pests that enter are spotted immediately and dealt with in an instant. What's inhabitable is a hoarder's abode.

d d

Those are not renderings, you'd fire the visualizer if they were. It appears like such a dark space for an all white finish. Also, all those feature furniture items make the images look really dated, it looks very early 2000s.

T,.T

Gehry chair ruins it ;)

hater

@disqus_FQ8zFyzBkQ:disqus, I'm sure it is rendered. First of all, all furniture is that kind of stylish stuff you get from sketchups warehouse to make your design look really "hip" and "credible".

Seriously, who lives with that wiggly chair for real? Second, look through the windows. You tell me, if you know a kind of reality where streets and trees look like that. And to your point with the light: they needed it to be white because they don't have enough windows. That place would be even darker and more cave-like in reality.